Adding a Local User Account

Use the following procedure to add a user account and to propagate that information to all the nodes in the system:

Collect as much of the following information about this account as possible:

User's password




	Note: A customary practice is to assign a temporary password that the user changes with the passwd command, but this data must be propagated to all the other system nodes also. See “Distributing Software Throughout the System” for more information.

User identifier number (UID)
A default value is assigned if you do not supply this information; this value is usually the next available UID. If you assign a value, first make sure that it is not already in use.
Group identifier number (GID)
A default value is assigned if you do not supply this value.
Home directory
A default value based on the login name is assigned automatically if you do not provide this information.
Shell
The default value is assigned if you do not supply this information.
Expiration date
This value specifies when the account will be disabled. Bypassing this entry means that there is no expiration date for the account.
The date entry must be in the format YYYY-MM-DD.

For more information about these and other commands, see useradd(8).

Use the useradd command to add a local user account on the golden client node:
# useradd options name
For example, the following command adds a user named John Adams with the login name adamsj. This user will be assigned the password temporary, will use the Korn shell, and will be assigned the home directory /users/adamsj, and default values for the home directory, UID, and GID.
# useradd -d /users/adamsj -p temporary -s /bin/ksh adamsj
Use the procedure in “Distributing Software Throughout the System” to transfer and propagate the files in the necessary files and directories, including the home directory for the user, the /etc/passwd file, and the /etc/shadow file.

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